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1) It has nothing to do with her blades, into which she allegedly pumped every bonus.

2) It shined. Not just when it was activated, but continuously, for as long as it was in effect, as Niko said that IS Skills would.

As to effect, it's hard to tell. It could increase the strength of her armor, but mostly it just seems to improve her ability to dodge. It did not, however, prevent her from concentrating on finding an opening in Nidhogg's defense, or from attacking.

Hard to say why she abandoned the technique after landing just one blow.

It's interesting to suppose that KYH has one IS technique for each of the other pure colors: Red and Blue modes, and such.

<<Terminate Sword>> is most likely to be useful against regenerating opponents.

I was reminded again of the statement that it would be a troll if KYH's real name would be Sachika since her VA (Sachika Misawa) also bears that name.

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So basically the MC is a salaryman just a few months away from attaining wizard status when he was suddenly turned into a guy half his age with ZOMG 1337 H5XX0R POWERS in the alternate world, has no personality and is only defined by his harem, so the main focus of the anime will be on dem grills.

So basically the MC is a salaryman just a few months away from attaining wizard status when he was suddenly turned into a guy half his age with ZOMG 1337 H5XX0R POWERS in the alternate world, has no personality and is only defined by his harem, so the main focus of the anime will be on dem grills.

Right, meaning that it takes effect anytime someone is cut by the blade.

Dolphin was kicking at Lotus' leg. If Lotus had rotated her leg, Dolphin's foot would be severed without question because of Terminate Sword.

Lotus felt merciful, and so instead stabbed that leg down into the earth; Dolphin's kick impacted against the flat side of her leg-blade and cracked it, but Lotus remained unmoved.

But Terminate Sword shouldn't have been necessary. If the blades already had the power to cut regardless of armor (piercing even the nigh-indestructible floor-base of the world), then the force of Dolphin's own kick (if intercepted by the blade rather than the flat) would have severed her foot.

One possibility is that Terminate Sword turns near-severings into total severings. As in: If your fingers or limbs would only be half-cut, they are instead totally cut off.

To answer the mode green question, yes it is. Head over to the LN thread, I've just published the Chinese Wiki for KYH, and it explicitly states Modes are her IS skills.

About Terminating Sword, I was thinking along the lines of probability of cutting. To explain:

In an equally matched fight, say, Level 1 v Level 1, KYH has a certain low probability of cutting, or severing, when a sword limb comes into contact with the opponent.

This probability rises by small amounts, factoring in speed of the strike, angle of attack, special skills being used by either avatar.

This probabilty changes by a moderate amount when factoring in level differences, Enhanced Armaments in contact with the sword-limb, and what part of the sword limb. Remember KYH vs Pile, her sword hand was right on his pile driver and it wasn't being cut.

Finally, the probability changes by a large amount if a weak spot is targeted, or KYH is using IS to artificially increase the probability.

AW is very much an MMO and these probability mechanics are right at home here. And while we mainly have Lotus vs Radio to go on as evidence, it does somewhat explain why Radio can go 1v1 with her: he only parried with his scepter (possibly a high-class armament), attacked with high speed, and being of equal level, the default probability of being cut in two is the same as a hypothetical fight between Level 1 Lotus and Radio.

And then he got his horn sliced right off because it definitely was part of his head, an critical area which boosted the probability of being cut.

To answer the mode green question, yes it is. Head over to the LN thread, I've just published the Chinese Wiki for KYH, and it explicitly states Modes are her IS skills.

Mode Red, Blue and Green.

Notably, she doesn't have a Yellow Mode. She can imagine going so far out of close range that she lands in Red, but not so far into Yellow that she gets past Green.

From the beginning, Black Lotus is a direct-damage close-range avatar, after all. Despite being allegedly pure Colorless, Lotus is biased in a way that suggests a chromatic color affinity.

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About Terminating Sword, I was thinking along the lines of probability of cutting. To explain:

To summarize: Brain Burst fudges its emulation of reality as far as dismemberment is concerned.

So even with the power to cut cleanly through any armor, Black Lotus could only count on reducing HP without regards to her own strength or the target's toughness, but she could not reliably sever body parts with a single strike.

At least until she got Terminate Sword, which increased her chances to inflict dismemberment to 100%, but still only under certain conditions.

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And then he got his horn sliced right off because it definitely was part of his head, an critical area which boosted the probability of being cut.

The probably was also probably increased by the fact that it was a nearly-inconsequential part of the head.

Speaking of all this, I'm not sure Death By Embrace is all that hot.

Between Absolute Cutting, Terminate Sword, and having an opponent in such a vulnerable position as an embrace with her swords at his neck, why does she need a "Level 8" attack and a full SP gauge to pull it off?

It smacks of Spiral Gravity Driver -- an investment with insigificant returns.

Notably, she doesn't have a Yellow Mode. She can imagine going so far out of close range that she lands in Red, but not so far into Yellow that she gets past Green.

Speaking of all this, I'm not sure Death By Embrace is all that hot.

Between Absolute Cutting, Terminate Sword, and having an opponent in such a vulnerable position as an embrace with her swords at his neck, why does she need a "Level 8" attack and a full SP gauge to pull it off?

It smacks of Spiral Gravity Driver -- an investment with insigificant returns.

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She also doesn't have Mode Purple since it is already redundant considering she has red and blue.

Maybe it was meant for ambush or assassination purposes. Essentially, an instant death attack.

Between Absolute Cutting, Terminate Sword, and having an opponent in such a vulnerable position as an embrace with her swords at his neck, why does she need a "Level 8" attack and a full SP gauge to pull it off?

It smacks of Spiral Gravity Driver -- an investment with insigificant returns.

Because all her special moves - at least, the ones we know of - are OHKO moves.

Death By Barraging would have killed Dolphin instantly had she not been using Tidal Wave. Death By Piercing IIRC also OHKOs. But Embracing not only deals a critical hit, it's used to kill opponents, not just hurt them.

Spoiler for Known victims:

Not only did Rider get his head chopped, Haru copped it too.

What I'm basically saying is that Embracing is so powerful it justifies the need for full SP gauge and point-blank contact.

So that's the original name Kawahara-sensei gave to KYH, huh? Of course it is more likely that he changed it. Fuuko, Utai, and Akira call her or Sacchan or Sachi.

My thoughts:

Yuki is usually written in Kanji as "Snow", but it can also be written as "Luck" as a single Kanji letter name. Sachi AFAIK is usually written as "Luck" or "Lucky Child" when combined with the -ko diminutive.

So it is also likely that the author did not change her real name, the Elements simply gave her a nickname which is an alternate reading of her given name.

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So basically the MC is a salaryman just a few months away from attaining wizard status when he was suddenly turned into a guy half his age with ZOMG 1337 H5XX0R POWERS in the alternate world, has no personality and is only defined by his harem, so the main focus of the anime will be on dem grills.

I'll concede, Gold. I'll post the wiki translations in the respective character threads where appropriate. Thus:

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Continuing from Haru which I did here, next is Kuroyukihime. I'll abbreviate her name as KYH.

Spoiler for Chinese Wiki KYH:

Kuroyukihime

Voice Actress: Misawa Sachika [JAP], Luo Xing Fan [HK]
Female protagonist of the story. Born Sept 30, 2032. 3rd year student in Umesato Junior High school (2nd year at the start of the story). Vice-president of the Student Council. Nicknamed 'Snow Black Princess due to her beautiful appearance, called by another nickname 'Sa-chan' by Fuuko and Utai.

Her name is not mentioned in the light novels, but under the author's web name 'Kunori Fumio', prior to winning Dengenki grand prize and rewriting the first volume of AW, he wrote at the end KYH admitted her name was 黑羽雪子（くろば ゆきこ）(Kuroba Yukiko). However there is still a probability author the name has since been changed by the author. Originally she lived in Kouwan Ward [港区] together with her sister, the White King White Cosmos. However after she attempted RL PK on her after being tricked, she was exiled from the house for 'psychiatric recovery', and has a lawyer for her legal guardian. Presently living in Suginami Asagaya Ward.

Due to the large amount of playtime in the Unlimited Field, her mental age greatly surpasses her physical age. Normally expressionless, she has waist-length black hair, and dresses in black all over. Normally earnest and easy-mannered, at times rash and hotheaded. Became a Burst Linker at age 8. Betrayed Six Kings of Pure Colour as the Black King. She took notice of Haruyuki after discovering his extremely fast reaction speeds, and later on developed feelings for him, confessing to him while in a state of acceleration and even giving him a kiss. In volume 9, she brought Haru to her home in the real world and confessed to him again. She has had to use acceleration to break Haruyuki's high scores in the Virtual Squash game, and thus invited Haru to become her partner. She used the command "Physical Full Burst" to protect Haru, and as a result was hit by the car Araya drove and was seriously injured.

While normally prudent and generous to others, when other girls (Chiyuri, Fuuko, Rin, Niko, etc) are physically close to Haru she gets hot-tempered and unhappy easily.

Once, she stayed over at Haru's house upon hearing Niko was staying there. Another time, she stayed over a second time, alone with Haru, giving the reason of 'bad weather.' They were found out by Fuuko the second day, and she too gave an excuse of "sleeping over at Haru's house this month" to stay together with KYH and Haru under the same roof. When she's with Haru, she neglects the people around her, not bothering to hide her love for him. Sometimes though, she gets thrown by some of Haru's words, such as the times he asks her to "stay by his side forever" and "eat dinner with him everyday."

In school, her net avatar is a "Black Swallowtail Butterfly". The body of the avatar is identical to her real-life self, with pure-white skin, long black hair. The avatar's dress is oily black bordered by silver, and she holds a parasol concealing a sword.

{Skipping the OVA part, again I swear there's no significant spoilers here. But the next section has some.}

Black Lotus

Nickname: Lotus. Black-coloured duel avatar, first appeared as a Level 9, and is one of the Seven Pure Colour Kings. One evening at a King's meeting two years before, Lotus executed the first-generation Red King via OHKO sneak attack to prevent the completion of the Enhanced Armament 'Seven Roses.' Afterwards she fought against the remaining Kings, but within the 30 minute time limit, she did not manage to kill another King.

The next day, Lotus and old NN members went to the Unlimited Field in a gamble, they offered to use Burst Points, buy Enhanced Armaments and offer those as an apology (to Prominence), but was rejected. They worked out a battle plan to penetrate the Imperial City, but got thwarted by the countermeasure enemies there and subsequently broke up: the last member was felled by the two-minute mark, most members were caught in Endless Kill mode. The members who successfully escaped lost a lot of BP due to the Four Gods. Lotus, branded a traitor, fled to Umesato Junior High school net to hide and never contacted the rest of old NN members.

The avatar 'Black Lotus' stands 1.70 metres tall, the head's visor is a tilted-back 'V' shape. The slender body is entirely clad in black armour, has swords for its limbs and flower-shaped armour {I presume they mean the skirt}. Lotus is one of the few 'levitation-type' duel avatars in AW. Has earned the nickname 'World's End.'

Lotus has a passive ability called 'Terminating Sword.' Her other special skills are 'Death By Barraging' (Level 4), 'Death By Piercing' (Level 5), and 'Death By Embracing' (Level 8).

In V2, she helped Rain hunt 5th CD and counter-attack Radio who had ambushed Rain. In V4, to save Crow's and Pile's collective asses, she Dived into UNF from Okinawa, tamed the Legendary-class enemy and ran for 15 hours straight to Umesato school grounds cum battle stage, using mind power to restrain Vise. In old NN, she and Raker targeted the West Gate together. During the rescue mission to retrieve Maiden, she used 'Overdrive - Mode Red' and the skill 'Vorpal Strike' to taunt Suzaku and draw aggro. In outer space area, together with Raker and Crow, Lotus used the 16-hit combo Incarnate technique 'Starburst Stream', cutting down Suzaku's last health bar to half full.

The principle idea of 'Overdrive', 'Over-Ray phenomenon', and 'Zero-Fill' are the same, that being of intense imagining of 'Positive Self-image.' From this, Black Lotus, originally an avatar with colourless properties, can set herself into three possible 'Modes':

-Mode Red (Imagining the avatar being remapped to one with long-range affinity)
-Mode Blue (Imagining the avatar being remapped to one with close-range affinity)
-Mode Green (Imagining the avatar being remapped to one with defensive affinity)

In V12, when describing the first {and lethal} King's meeting at a time several months later, Lotus discovered by chance the Enhanced Armament 'Seven Roses' had transferred to her Storage, and truly understood its meaning and implications after using it.

Seven Roses saga: The White king approached KYH and showed her a gun made by Red Rider, claiming that one of it would be given to every legion, would only be usable when your legion is attacked, and never missed, had infinite ammo and devastating power. She made a demonstration of the power of the gun, and said it was to be a deterrent that would make it impossible to attack another legion, as the defending side would always win, essentially enforcing the truce regardless of the other king's opinions.

KYH kills him with the intention of stopping the making of the other guns. However, after the destruction of NN, while she was already in hiding, she notices that, when she killed Rider, one of the guns was transferred to her inventory, as sometimes happens when you kill someone. The weapon is unlocked, but it won't fire. She realized he made it that way as a symbol of peace. She runs to her sister's room to accuse her, to which she only agrees to everything, smiling. Hime tried to force her into a duel with a box cutter, but her sister tells her not to do that, as she doesn't want to take even brain burst away from her. Hime, realizing she could never win, ends up stabbing her in the hand, and that's how she was thrown out of the house.

Note: The white king is her one year older sister and her Parent. She doesn't possess any physical attack power, and she doesn't appear in front of anybody besides her legions top lieutenants. KYH mentions she used to fight in the very beginning of Brain Burst (implying she is an originator), but that she used something, either an ability or a enhanced armament, that made her enveloped with light so the opponent couldn't see her form (essentially confirming she is the person with Black Vise in the Chrome disaster back-story).

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Well well. In hindsight, the author would have included KYH's name at the end of V1 before he published it again, and thus in the anime and LN it's not there anymore.

Gold's main consternation with Spiral Gravity Driver is its apparently low reward in terms of damage when compared to the difficulty of landing a hit with hit. I say apparently, because in both LN and anime, there has not been any other scene in which Taku has used SGD against another opponent of comparable level.

So basically the MC is a salaryman just a few months away from attaining wizard status when he was suddenly turned into a guy half his age with ZOMG 1337 H5XX0R POWERS in the alternate world, has no personality and is only defined by his harem, so the main focus of the anime will be on dem grills.

You know, reading back over the earlier discussions, it's surprising how many people seem to have missed the full implications of unlimited burst for Kuroyuki. Most people that mentioned the issue seemed to think she was just a few years older than her chronological age, 20s was the most I recall seeing mentioned here.

For the Unlimited Neutral Field, aka, the real Accel World, 8000 years have passed since it's creation. If you spent just 4 hours real world time in the AW every day (not an unusual amount of time per day to spend on recreational activities like games, tv, reading, etc), after a year you would have spent about 166 years in the Accel World.

Kuroyuki started the game 7 years ago real world time. It would have been pretty easy for her (or the other kings and veteran players for that matter) to have spent a few centuries in the Accel World. That's a lot of time to affect a personality. Even if she hasn't spent centuries there, to live up to her claim of "more time than anyone in this country" spent there, she almost certainly would have had to spend a few decades there.

Nurse: “You should also…return home and rest. It seems that someone from her family will be coming tomorrow.”

Keeping in mind that this is well after the family lawyer showed up, I wonder who visited her?

It might have been her parents, still ashamed of her apparent mental breakdown two years ago but still concerned for her...

Spoiler for Black and White:

Or it might have been her sister. Which would have been really interesting, since by "tomorrow", KYH had made her return to the Accelerated World as Black Lotus and declared war on the Six Great Legions.

Given KYH's guilt over Red Rider and how Cosmos might jump up and down on that button, it might not have been her sister, though. KYH was too collected and happy when Haruyuki next visited her. Though more time might have passed than apparent.

More reasons against her sister visiting would be parental fears that KYH would attack her again.